Kagome got in Inuyasha's car and they sat there staring at each other.

"What is it?" she asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Uh…Where are we going?"

"I don't know. I just wanted to get out of the house because Sota has his teammates over and Sango wanted to have Skype sex with Miroku." She replied, rolling her eyes.

"Skype sex?" He chuckled, thought about it then quickly shook the thought out of his mind because imagining his friends naked in front of their computers was weird. "So what do you wanna do?"

"I want to lay down." She said with a small laugh.

"Well then we can go to my house." He pulled off and began driving home.

"Inuyasha?"

"Hmm?"

"Why were you so upset?"

"Kikyo called me at 3 in the morning."

Kagome grew angry. A million different scenarios went through her head. 'Was she begging him to take her back? Is she moving back? Did she tell him she missed him? Was he going to be with her?'

"W-What'd she want?" Kagome tried her best to sound calm.

"She's in Rome. She met a guy there and they're getting married next month. She also told me she felt guilty for leaving like that and it wasn't my fault she left."

"I see." 'He still loves her.' She assumed, feeling like an arrow had gone through her heart.

"She's so full of shit, though. She always was. She was so self-righteous. She probably patted herself on the back after she hung up like she did a fucking good deed by calling me."

Kagome asked the question she was afraid to ask. The question she thought she needed to ask. "Well…How do you feel about her?"

"I don't really know. I don't miss her. I'm just still bothered by the fact that I got left. She really walked away from me when I thought things were going so good. Back then, I wouldn't have thought she'd be calling me to tell me she was marrying someone else. The emotions are gone but...I dunno."

"The pain is still there, right? It's like a wound. Every time you think it's closed, it opens again. I know how you feel."

Of course she knew. It was like she was sitting closer than his pain. "It fucking sucks."

"Some wounds need extra care. You have to constantly tend to them until they begin to close up. Sometimes they're never fully closed, and you don't realize it until they reopen and you have to try to get them to close them again. I just like to convince myself that one day my wounds will fully close. The easiest way to defeat pain is by enduring it."

"That's true."

"I remember one time I was crying about my scars, when I first got them stitched up. I was complaining that my body was disfigured and no one would ever love me like this. Sota told me I wasn't disfigured; I was a tiger who had grown her stripes. Tigers are strong and fierce carnivores. I guess I've lived my life by that. Maybe I do come off as a bitch, but I have my reasons."

"People think that just because I'm half demon, that I'm just not human. Half demons have the option to choose between their two hearts. When I'm hurt, I'm hurt. I don't show my weakness to anyone. You're the only person, aside from Miroku, who ever sees this side of me."

"And you're the only person, aside from Sango, who sees this side of me."

Inuyasha looked over at Kagome and smiled. "At least we have each other."